They have suicidal attempts, problems with aggression, hyperactivity or self -acceptance behind them – they need help here and now. In the Psychiatry Clinic of Children and Youth in Warsaw opened a few weeks ago, all beds are occupied. There are days that as many patients sleep on mattresses.
In the imposed at the beginning of this impressive, most modern Children's Children's Center for Children's Health Center in Poland, the most important room with mattresses is the most important room. Children have to sleep on them on the floor because there is nowhere to put them. There are 30 new beds and they are all busy. There were days that almost as many extras had to be organized.
– From the beginning of March we have started both duty for young people and children. And then in one day we were able to accept a dozen or so patients, which absolutely required hospitalization – says Dr. Marek Migdał, director of the “Monument – Children's Health Center” Institute in Warsaw.
The problems of young patients concern matters of life and death
It is often necessary to place a child or a teenager in such a room, even on a mattress on the floor, because the problems they come across, concern matters of life and death, i.e. the most important.
– We have a lot of patients after suicide attempts, with thoughts, suicide trends, and aggression, great stimulation – says Dr. Beata Ryszewska -Pokraśniewicz from the Institute “Monument – Children's Health Center”.
Children's psychiatry in Poland is “19th century” here and there. Children lie tied with beltsKatarzyna Górniak/Fakty TVN
The problem does not only apply to Warsaw – this is the case in the whole country. In the hospital in Zdroje in Szczecin, he has been taking a newly renovated ward for children and adolescents for several days. There will be extra beds in a moment: just like before renovation.
– There were six beds in the rooms and more, it happened that patients had to have their beds placed outside the room for some time, in the corridor – says Dr. Joanna Biskupska from the Department of Children's and Youth Psychiatry at the Hospital “Zdroje” in Szczecin.
This cannot be avoided, because the psychiatric care system for children and adolescents remains inefficient.
Care dramatically insufficient
– In Poland, many children go to such departments of 24 -hour care at all, because there are no daily departments and there is no possibility of everyday, regular support – indicates Dr. Łukasz Tyszler, director of the “Zdroje” hospital in Szczecin, which the psychiatric ward must secure assistance for the entire West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
For such a great population and region, this is a dramatically insufficient care. That is why in June in Szczecin the construction of a completely new mental health center for children will start.
– My dream, that we would be able to secure the whole province, also on the basis of such centers in Kołobrzeg, Koszalin, Gryfice, Świnoujście or Pyrzyce – says Łukasz Tysler.
At the Children's Health Center in Warsaw, they do not fall asleep in Popiele. Thanks to the donation from TVN – PLN 100,000 – you will be able to buy over 20 additional beds so that children do not have to sleep on the floor.
– When this healing and therapeutic process takes place in such conditions that the child is lying on the mattress, it is simply humiliating for him – notes Marlena Czarnecka -Gralak from the Clinic of Psychiatry of Children and Youth of the Institute “Monument – Children's Health Center”.
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